268 DAHLAK 



I myself observed (see also Roghi's narrative) that this king- 

 fish hangs around men and inanimate objects like floating 

 trunks and boats in the same way as it follows big fish. When 

 we drew up to the whale shark, to quote an important 

 example, many of the pilot fish that were swimming around 

 its flanks and under its belly, abandoned it and made for the 

 keel of our boat, as if mistaking it for the abdomen of some 

 other inhabitant of the seas. 



